Ground Map of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
This source shows a detailed floor plan for the Hartsfield-Jackson international airport. The numerous runways are displayed in this top down view as well as the numerous terminals and buildings dispersed around the area. Even though most of the detail within this virtual map is held within the premises of the airport itself, there is some detail attributed to the highway networks of the area surrounding the airport. The secondary source “Equity and health impacts of aircraft emissions at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.” delves into the very real impacts of living close to a large airport. Not only does this source help shed light on the quality of living for the people in the area but it also sheds light on the socio economic struggles of those same people. Additionally, this article draws correlations between the “mediating relationships between socioeconomic variables”. As well as “The relationship between minority population percentages and aircraft-derived particulate matter”. The exploration of the relationship found to grow stronger as concentrations of both increased increased. Not only does this article provide rhetoric on health and safety but it also speaks on the demographic of people struggling with socio economic struggles and how they’re more likely to be affected by the air pollution around a major airport. This article also takes note on the trend of how low income minority families have more of a likelihood to congregate in and around residential areas that are cheap. This low cost of living is due to some sort of devaluing factor to the area. In the case of the Atlanta Airport, the people that are living close by are there because housing is cheap and nobody wants to live under the constant din of airplanes. Unfortunately, these people living here have little choice in their living situation and they’re there out of necessity. This necessity however is detrimental to them due to the heightened level of aerial pollutants from the exhaust of the planes.
Secondary Source Citation:
Rissman, Jeffrey. “Equity and Health Impacts of Aircraft Emissions at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.” NeuroImage, Academic Press, 22 Sept. 2013, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204613001382.